Reviews tagging 'Gore'

Koelcel by David Koepp

14 reviews

meganemarshall's review against another edition

adventurous funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Cold storage was a classic thriller. Fun. Hilarious. Tense. Sometimes terrifying and gruesome, but genuinely entertaining. The style of writing with the omnipotent narrator at times worked, like when it was the POV of the fungus, but other times, it was giving unnecessary background information. 

For me, the only major issue I had was the pacing. The book would be really tense, and then it would fall off. Rinse and repeat. It didn't have any kind of consistency. It didn't slowly build and then slowly fall. It was like a cliff. It kind of messed with the heart-stopping feeling, the worry you're feeling.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore

rochelleisreading's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny informative fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Body horror, Animal cruelty, and Vomit

Minor: Abortion, Stalking, and Religious bigotry

laellaj's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Animal death, Drug use, Excrement, Terminal illness, Body horror, Suicide attempt, Vomit, and Gore

aparker89's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Colonisation, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Medical trauma, Pandemic/Epidemic, Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Blood, Death, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Vomit, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Gore, Medical content, Racism, and Body horror

echood's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Pandemic/Epidemic, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Vomit, and Terminal illness

zombiezami's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

4.25

Very fascinatingly written, but fumbled the epilogue

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Cursing, Classism, Animal cruelty, Gore, Alcoholism, Blood, Vomit, Murder, Suicide, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Gun violence, Confinement, Animal death, Violence, Alcohol, and Car accident

Moderate: Pregnancy, Stalking, and Abandonment

Minor: Mass/school shootings, Sexual content, and Adult/minor relationship

ashley_elizabeth's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

What a ride! I can totally see how is the person who brought us the screenplays of Jurassic Park and Spider-Man; his books read like a film.  "Cold Storage" had great pacing, enjoyable characters, and a wild premise that seemed fairly rooted in real modern- day science. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Gore

directorpurry's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Suicide, Gore, Animal death, Body horror, Violence, and Gun violence

corirarrick2's review against another edition

adventurous challenging tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Death

Moderate: Cursing, Gore, Animal death, and Gun violence

thehhugg's review against another edition

adventurous funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

What a fun ride. This was not high brow literature, but it wasn't trying to be; it was a fun, funny, sometimes gross romp.

I love unique twists on the zombie genre, and this was a good one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Medical content, and Violence

Moderate: Suicide and Gun violence

Minor: Confinement